Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 570, which has core clock speeds of 1168 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 480		13349 points
Radeon RX 570		12108 points
	Difference: 1241 (10%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 18 (6%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (4%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		800 h/s
Radeon RX 570		600 h/s
	Difference: 200 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 480 should perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 570 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is a little bit (approximately 8%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11776 (8%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 will be just a bit (approximately 4%) better at FSAA than the Radeon RX 480, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1536 (4%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.